The last time Los Angeles hosted an Olympics, the city won the games largely because it promised to do them on the cheap.The 1984 Games were a success, even with the Soviet Union and others boycotting. Peter Ueberroth and his team delivered on their promise of bare-bones games, and 32 years later the surplus keeps paying dividends for Southern California sports through the well-funded LA84 Foundation.Now Los Angeles wants to do it again. And the playbook looks strikingly familiar.The citys plan to host the 2024 Olympics is audacious not -- like most Olympic bids -- because of the grandeur and spectacle it promises. Rather its because it promises to do something most Olympic cities have failed to do in the modern era -- deliver a decent Olympics while sticking to a reasonable budget.If Los Angeles gets the nod, organizers promise this would be an Olympics done on budget and with little building necessary. It would cost just $5.3 billion, a fraction of the $20 billion Tokyo organizers want to spend on the 2020 Games.Of course, its all promises and glitzy presentations now. And the latest plan unveiled last week to put on an Olympics without huge cost overruns is as much a strategy for beating Paris out for the 2024 Olympics as it is for putting on the actual games themselves.But LA has done it before, and done it well, turning a profit in 1984 when it was said that couldnt be done. And there are some smart people behind it, including the citys mayor and Casey Wasserman, an entertainment and sports industry figure who is active in all the right circles in Southern California.More important, it might be coming at just the right time, when the International Olympic Committee is looking to reign in some of the excesses of the games. On the same day Los Angeles unveiled the latest version of its plan last week, an IOC vice president warned Tokyo organizers that a $20 billion plan for the 2020 Olympics was unacceptable.If LA is chosen to host the 2024 Games, the IOC does not have to worry about changing or evolving budgets, shifting competition venues or uncertainty about the delivery of the games, said Wasserman, the LA 2024 chairman.To prove the point, LA24 submitted its budget to the accounting firm KPMG for evaluation. The accountants declared the plan reasonable with the important caveat that any changes to the budget after this date are outside the scope of this project.Security is also outside the scope of the project. It will be hugely expensive, though organizers believe the federal government will pick up the tab as it did for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.Promises are easier broken than kept, but Los Angeles has some things going for it. The biggest is that the LA metropolitan area already has almost all the sports facilities to host an Olympics, though Paris also plans to use mostly existing facilities.Still, what better place to center the Olympics than the LA Coliseum, a beautiful and historic stadium built for the 1932 Games and used again in 1984.Soccer would be in the iconic Rose Bowl, and basketball at Staples Center, home of the Lakers and Clippers.Swimming would be one of the few things needed to be built, and it would be a temporary open air facility on the USC campus that would be torn down after the games were over.Best of all, perhaps, is that theres already an athletes village. The plan is to use student housing at UCLA to house the worlds best athletes, and if dorm rooms dont sound that great they will certainly be an upgrade on the accommodations in Rio.Not to worry, there are also plenty of Beverly Hills mansions and ritzy hotels to house even the pickiest member of the U.S. basketball team.Why any city would want an Olympics in an era of bloated competitions and suspect athletes might be the one question LA residents should be asking. The people of Boston, you might remember, rose in rebellion last year and quashed that citys bid for the games.Its basically between Paris and Los Angeles (Budapest is not thought to be a winnable bid, and Rome recently dropped out) when IOC members meet next year to decide the site of the 2024 Games. Paris is thought to be the front-runner but with politics involved -- the presidency of Donald Trump is a wild card -- and the usual intrigue and shenanigans that go with a bid, its anyones guess what city will win.But LA has a plan, and its similar to one that worked before.Right now, a third Olympics in Los Angeles doesnt sound so bad at all.----Tim Dahlberg is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at tdahlberg(at)ap.org or http://twitter.com/timdahlberg Daniel Winnik Jersey . Defenceman Yannick Weber scored the go-ahead goal early in the third period and the Canucks breathed a sigh of relief with a 2-1 win on Saturday night. Jonas Brodin Jersey . Walcott is available for Saturdays home match against Southampton as Arsenal looks to extend its two-point lead at the top of the Premier League. 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Dover Motorsports has agreed to sell the closed Nashville Superspeedway to California-based real estate development company Panattoni Development Company for $44.7 million.The closing of the sale of the 1,380-acre property should take place by the end of March 2017, according to Dover filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.Panattoni will pay Dover $27.5 million in cash and assume the bond obligation, which has a current principal balance of $17.2 million.Dover estimates that net proceeds from the sale will be approximately $21-22 million after income taxes and settlement adjustments.The 1.333-mile concrete track located about 35 miles from Nashville in Lebanon, Tennessee, opened in 2001 and played host to NASCAR Xfinity Series and Camping World Truck Series races until Dover opted not to seek sanctions for those events in 2012.Panattoni is not in the business of operating racetracks, but it does not plan to rip apart the site the first day it closes the deal, said Panattoni partner Whitfield Hamilton,, who handles the companys Southeast acquisitions.ddddddddddddWere not pursuing it as a racetrack, Hamilton said. Were industrial developers who want to turn this into a world-class logistics and distribution park thats along the lines with other parks weve done.The company already has projects ongoing in the Nashville area and recently completed a distribution for Under Armour in nearby Mount Juliet.Its such a big site and such an incredible facility, we dont have to start right there at the racetrack with what we do, Hamilton said. Well probably leave it for some period of time. ... Well leave the door open to see if something good can happen. Maybe it does. We dont necessarily have anything directly working on the race front.Dover had agreed to sell the track in 2014 to technology entrepreneurial company NeXovation for virtually the same terms, but the company defaulted on the payments. ' ' '